MILITARY INFORMATION FROM THE CORPS NORD AREA (DIVISIONS EXCLUDED)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A005900500006-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 25, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: January 11, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION Sx,CRE'1'
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-,);, !. i 1 tarv Information from the Corns Nord Area (Divisions Excluded)
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DATE PREPARED--!I .T Ann rv '1255
This is UNEVALUATED Information
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1. From 16 November to 11 December 1954, the Kavallerie Kaserne in Pasewalk 25X1
quartered an estimated 2,000 men who wore yellow-bordered black and red-
-bordered black collar patches, According to civilian workers, an undetermined
num'ner of AAA units and a signal unit were located in this installation.
Small crews were still assigned to harvesting details.
2, Detachments of 20 to 50 men received combat training; in the area south of 25X1
the installation, and record practices with rifles, pistols and submachine
guns were held at the target ranges Training activity observed in the
area of the installation was limited to training with 37k-mm and 85.-mm
AA guns. Training with artillery fire control directors was presumably
held near the sheds which were protected from observation..
3- On 7 December, 15 x 37-mm and 85-mm AA guns, an undetermined number of
trucks and items of equipment, and about 80 AA artillerymen were entrained
at the Pasewalk railroad station,
this unit ene from this insta latior.
and was allegedly the ;adre for a new unit...
4 On J December, 200 recruits were observed arriving ai. the Kavallerie
Kaserne.,
The Henschel IIagazin (depot) was occupied to capacity by 37-mm and e5-mm
AA guns, artillery fire control directors and radio trucks, The former
stables in thI area of the installation also housed guns and several items
of equipment,
6. On about 4 December, soldiers commenced layin, an underground cable,
about 10 centimeters in diameter, from the installation toward
Neubrandenburg.
From 1 November to 2 December, two units which were commanded by Fritz ear 25X1
(fnu' and Muehle (fnu) were stationed at Camp Fuenfeichen., 'Te installation
quartered an estimated total of 500 men, with the unit commaned by Fritzler
s"~ight.ay outnumbering the unit commanded by i.uehle. Two hundred men of the
M ehl.e unit were daily detached as potato harvesters to the neighborin,
fay;;is., Captain Fritzler's deputy was Senior Lieutenant Paetzold (fnu)..
?eldie s of the units said that discharges were not y.t fully ef4'acted as
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scheduled beceuse the number o: inductees was still too lowQ
3.. In P?ovember, forr.&i trainin. and training with 5 or 6 pontons was held
on the neighboring -pond. All garages we filled to eapseit with tracks
Anct'.er 10 tr ickc were parked in the yarn, Allegedly there ::as a total
(I 120 tracks at the site, Forty-five pontons weri observed in the ym.rd,
L'nd 20 more pot0 were stored in a stora. a shed.
1, Comr:ent. This barracks installation uarters the head'uartere,
the si nal battalion and the ALA regiment of Arr.:ee-ruppe Nord,,
Gommment~ It is beli3ved that the shipment mentioned in the present
report is identical to the shipment from RBD Greifswald to 3trai berg
which has been re:,orttd The shipment from Hopponwpld
and Pasevalk to R3D 3er n which ",as observed on 6 December possibly
also ccnsisted of AA& units whose destination was the Strausberg railroad
station. units have also been shipped from Potsdam to Strausberr
on and perha;ie before 2$ Nove ber, These reports tend to indicate that
an :" unit is being activated in the Strausberg area,?alth%ugh, p Mr
to 16 December, no reports from the Eggersdorf installation have
mentioned iv o ills menu
Co en a The knit comrd bob it `ler.
'% renz au
battalion of :otorized trifle %D
apparently not been aonpenll ted.Z. ,pr4gr
the estimate of the. tota4,qtrezKt;A the
into consideration the h4rvestin, Crewwh
November, possible f e. lX9 I*Xlod.
has been-mentioned 14 previous repo
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in the mean time, the,pat,~ lone, asly fia hbssn the od e r ith oil{ "flits,
have been suppl,ied..wi~h new txzFka=;, nor ieutenant f s e t of or P
hike is 'thd` en'hin r' . "' 25X1
though dicchargee have
ember, it is believed that
has pr65a')br n6 tekdn
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edfim4ted 'the
strength of the units at-,650Vnen on.3l oct*Rro num et 'of the pontons observed sgreese,xith_-t4e's atus ro orted as o! 31 October.
Since the number of 120 trucks for the two "engineer `sttilions sli?''htly
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